Gerry George
Georgetown University and International Medical University
Emerging technologies for supporting collective action via private-public collaboration
Gerry George builds on his work on digital sustainability (Nambisan & George, 2024) and how emerging digital technologies can help address some of the barriers to collective action that confound societal grand challenge implementation by bridging public-private collaborations across multinational, national, or community organizations (George et al., 2024).
Bio:
Gerry George is Group Managing Director at International Medical University (Malaysia), an investment of the TPG Rise Fund where he was Senior Advisor. He continues as Academic Advisor to the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative while on leave from McDonough School of Business as the Tamsen and Michael Brown Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Previously, he served as Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor at Singapore Management University. Before SMU, he was Professor and Deputy Dean of Imperial College Business School, Associate Professor at London Business School, and Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University.